SilverStone Sugo SG09 Case Review: Someone at SilverStone Loves Tetris
by Dustin Sklavos on October 20, 2012 6:35 PM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
- SilverStone
- MicroATX
Noise and Thermal Testing, Overclocked
SilverStone seems to have done an excellent job engineering the Sugo SG09 for CPU cooling, but graphics card cooling in our stock testing wasn't the revelation the processor side was. They've almost proved that you can still have a very small system with great thermals (admittedly sacrificing some thermal performance on the storage side), so how well did the SG09 handle our higher voltage overclocked testbed?
Just as well, as it turns out.
Testing was again done at an ambient temperature of ~23C with the top intake fan at both low and high speeds.
Graphics card temperatures are competitive, but they're not exceptional. Meanwhile the CPU temperatures continue to impress; the 180mm intake fan's low fan speed actually seems to be enough to basically saturate the cooling potential of the heatsink itself, as raising the fan speed offers virtually no improvement in performance.
Again, fan speeds are competitive. The reviewer's guide promises the SG09 is equipped to handle high performance, high heat components and by and large that seems to be true.
Unfortunately the case is still, frankly, kind of noisy. It does better here where overclocking pushes noise levels harder, but I continue to strongly suggest installing a fan controller. It's obvious the SG09 has a substantial amount of cooling power on tap, so the prudent thing would probably be to get system performance where you want it and then find a good balance between thermals and noise.
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dingetje - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
so what's the best matx case guys? SilverStone Temjin TJ08-E ? orrrrrr...?piroroadkill - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
Fractal Design Define Mini gets my voteEnzoFX - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
TJ08-E if you want small. Define Mini if you want it to be easily quiet. Both great.CknSalad - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
I still think tj08-e is the best matx case. It looks simple, elegant, and is the 2nd smallest or So. You also have the option of using the top 2 Bays and bottom slot for hard drives if you need 3 hdds with a good air cooler. This new offering by silverstone is ambitious but has a few issues where my main concern are the temps for the hard drives. Also i would prefer having more than two hard drive slots than having up to 4ssd slOts. Anyways, i hope to see more matx cases asi feel they are the best of both worlds in terms of size and performance. Unless you need more than two cards and need the extra expansion slots, most users and even the Gamer will have a single gpu, wifi card, and possibly a dedicated audio card. This is just my two cents. Those that disagree i would be happy to hear what you have to say about this. Overall if the desktop market wants to have decent sales on the consumer side of things, they are going to have to make a better effort off releasing more sff parts without the big dip in performance.n13L5 - Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - link
Silverstone cases almost always have a clever layout with good cooling concept, but:Material quality, fit and finish is usually a DOG'S BREAKFAST!
If I could merge Silverstone's Layout prowess with Lian Li's sense of quality and aesthetics, I would.